The Diario de Avisos Foundation has chosen to award the TERRA Award to the Acropolis Restoration Service for the conservation and restoration works carried out on the Acropolis monuments. The TERRA Awards are a newly established institution that aims to…
The first phase of the restoration works on the Agrippa monument was completed on July 15, 2022. The monument built in the 2nd century BC on the west of the Propylaia, is not only an important example of Hellenistic architecture…
The scaffoldings that had been attached on the area B17 of the north wall were dismantled. The works completed involved the restoration of the wall in the area located next to the Propylaea and the foundations of the NW building.…
At the 7th of July YSMA welcomed the new specialised personnel, recruited and appointed to the work Restoration-Conservation-Enhancement. The work, of a 10,000,000.00€ budget, incorporated in Greece 2.0 – National Recovery and Sustainability Plan, will be implemented by the Acropolis…
The restoration works that started on the Acropolis in 2017 and were funded by the OP Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPANEK), will have been completed within the agreed time schedule by June 2023, despite the problems caused by covid-19.…
This application presents the Parthenon frieze, the continuous relief band running along the top part of the main temple. Τhe subject of the frieze was the Panathenaic procession in honour of the goddess Athena. The application is addressed to scholars…
The first part of the results of the current research regarding the Acropolis monuments’ polychromy is presented in the scientific study of Dr. E. Aggelakopoulou, head of the Conservation Department of the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) and Associate Professor of…
The exhibition of drawings from the proposals for the restoration of the western access to the Acropolis and for the Strategic Plan for the interventions on the Acropolis walls that was presented in the context of the 7th International Meeting…
On Saturday 13th November 2021 the works of the International Meeting for the restoration of the Acropolis Monument ended. The Meeting was organised by The Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) and the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis monuments (ESMA)…
The Acropolis Restoration Service and the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of Culture, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens and the Acropolis Museum organise the 7th International Scientific Meeting for the…
7th International Meeting on the subject of: “The restoration works on the Acropolis. The new Programmes”. The meeting will take place in Athens, from 11th to the 13th November 2021, at the Acropolis Museum. Read the circular
In the autumn of 2020, the construction of new walkways on the Acropolis for people with mobility impairments was completed. The elaboration of the study was preceded and it was approved by the authorized councils and services of the Ministry…
The Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments (ESMA) was formed in 1975; it is an interdisciplinary committee, set up by the Ministry of Culture, which is responsible for designing and supervising the contemporary conservation and restoration interventions in…
YSMA’s photographic exhibition “Chisel and Memory: the contribution of marble craftsmanship to the restoration of the monuments” is presented at the Museum of the city of Chengdu in China. The exhibition and its transfer to Chengdu emerged from a suggestion…
Deadline extention for submiting photos in the action: The Acropolis: Focusing on the restoration #45YEARSESMA #45YEARSWORKS until the 20th of November 2020 How do visitors perceive the restoration works at the Acropolis monuments? This is the question posed by the…
Open call to participate in the photographic action entitled: The Acropolis: Focusing on the restoration #45YEARSESMA #45YEARSWORKS Duration of entries: 9/9/2020-20/10/2020 The Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments (ESMA), an interdisciplinary committee of the Ministry of Culture responsible…
The exhibition “Chisel and Memory: the contribution of marble-craftsmanship to the restoration of monuments” is transferred to Taranto, Italy, in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Bari (School of Specialization in Architectural Goods and Landscape) and the Soprintendenza Archeologia per…
In the near future YSMA will call for the selection of a contractor, in order to remove the base of the construction crane, which in 2010 was moved to the west side of the Parthenon from the north side, where…